Happy New Year! I hope your celebration of the beginning of 2022 was fun, and in these current times, safe! Like so many of you, I contemplated my New Year’s resolutions. Doing that made me curious ab...

The Okmulgee Police Department is investigating a shooting Tuesday afternoon that sent one man to the hospital. According to Chief Joe Prentice, the OPD was dispatched around 3:45 p.m. Dec. 28 regardi...

As the year 2021 comes to a close, the Okmulgee Times is taking a moment to look at some of the events and headlines that made this a year never to forget. The year gave us a historic freeze that caus...

Members of Conversion Ministry Church are preparing for a special dinner and event today. The church, led by Pastor Greg Richardson, is holding a New Year’s Eve Watch meeting, from 6-8 p.m. Before the...

The Okmulgee County Health Department, in collaboration with OU Physician’s Tulsa, is happy to announce the launch of their Maternity Health Program. Be ginning Jan. 15, 2022, expecting mothers will b...

The deadline for payment of county taxes has been extended. According to Okmulgee County Treasurer Vonna Lampkins, the regular deadline is Dec. 31 for the first half of the taxes, but she has extended...

Seven members of the 2021 Dewar varsity football team were recently selected to be part of the Oklahoma Eight Man Football Coaches Association All-Star Team. The annual All-Star football game will tak...

The Beggs Golden Demons suffered a pair of setbacks earlier this week at the Noble Basketball Festival. The Demons, who began the 2021-2022 campaign December 14 with a narrow 56-53 road win at Kiefer,...

Kelly Kindell (left) and Rikki Wolfe, who were teammates on the Schulter Lady Bulldog basketball team that competed at the Class B state tournament in 2006, were foes on Tuesday when Wolfe’s Sasakwa L...

The Morris Lady Eagle varsity basketball team welcomed the Sasakwa Lady Vikings to town for a Christmas Break scrimmage Tuesday afternoon at the Don Shoemake Fieldhouse. The Lady Eagles used the scrim...

The Morris Eagle varsity basketball team welcomed the Okemah Panthers to town for a Christmas Break scrimmage Tuesday afternoon at the Don Shoemake Fieldhouse. The Eagles used the scrimmage against th...

There must be something in the water, or maybe it just might possibly be that ole’ down-home feelgood feeling that we Okies offer these “transplants.” This is the third program in the past two months ...

Cornerstone Foursquare Church “Cornerstone is a place for young “Cornerstone is a place for young people to come know Jesus and express themselves,” lead pastor Rev. Mickey Baldwin said. He continues,...

What’s a year? This may be a question most of us don’t think too much about, but is really important. A year is 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days (unless it’s leap year), 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes and ...

With 2021 about to end, the staff at Oklahoma Farm Bureau Insurance in Okmulgee County is celebrating a successful year. This year, the agency celebrated Agent Jim Hall’s 20 year anniversary with Okla...

December 31 New Year’s Eve Watch Meeting | Conversion Ministry, 1330 E. Martin Luther King Drive, will hold a New Year’s Eve Watch Meeting Friday, Dec. 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. The public is invited to at...

All City Hall offices and Public Works operations will be closed on Friday. Emergency service operations, police and fire departments, will remain operational during that time. Sanitation service for ...

The Okmulgee Young Professionals congratulates the winners of the Light Up Okmulgee Christmas Light Contest. Pictured above, Residential First Place was Billy Hannon and Second Place went to Ken Ander...

Midwestern State University recognized 1,036 honor students for the Fall 2021 semester. The President’s Honor Roll included 369 students, the Provost’s Honor Roll included 302 students and the Dean’s ...

Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) began accepting online applications Dec. 28 for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and Low Income Home Water Assistance Programs (LIHWAP). These fed...